The One with the Staggeringly Quick Change
Ronnie and Roma, out on patrol in Slough, when they pass a car whose occupant hastily hides something. He claims he’s had nothing to drink, despite having booze breath and a can sitting provocatively in the passenger footwell. The car may not be moving, but the keys are in the ignition so, in legal terms, he’s in charge of the car. Once back at the nick, however, the reading on the intoximeter causes jaws to drop in astonishment! Incredibly, they stopped him again the following week, and he was almost as bad again…
Ronnie and Roma are back in Slough again, and have spotted a suspicious car. They pull it, and find the Polish driver also has ‘booze breath’. He fails a breath test, once it’s established that he should be blowing through the tube, not sucking. Once back at the nick, however, through the assistance of an interpreter on the other end of a telephone, the intoximeter clears him as he’s only blown 34. But all is not as it seems – as he’s giving a false name, ‘cos he’s wanted for other offences anyway!
Charlie and Ruffy are in Bicester, and are stopped by supermarket staff, who tell them that someone’s just fled with a load of CDs. Pausing only to allow Ruffy to put his hi-vis anorak on and swap seats with Charlie (I know, I know – it’s a continuity error!), they give chase. When stopped, the man seems quite astonished at the charge while Charlie’s cuffing him, though there’s not a lot he can say about the ridiculously large numbers of security boxes in the back of his car. Or the rigged bag that can block the signal from alarm tags, or the fact that he’s not actually legal to drive – or the huge haul of nicked stuff he’s got hidden in the boot!
Yorkie and Dixie are in Reading looking for a car being driven by a man who has just completed a disqualification – but hasn’t actually got around to sorting his license out. Ironically, it was their work that got him the ban in the first place! He has managed to get insurance, but only by fibbing about being legal. Not surprisingly – he got banned again…
Simon and JK are out in Milton Keynes and stop to deal with a man who’s driving without a license. He also has a brakelight out, which is the perfect ‘other’ reason to pull him over. The man is absolutely insistent that he does have a license – a Danish one – which he isn’t carrying with him.
Ruffy makes probably the fastest stop in Road Wars history, right at the start of his shift, and right outside Slough nick! The car has dinged his ANPR as being stolen – the driver having sold it to someone else, taken the money, and kept the car. Though why anyone would want to buy a knackered old fiesta with plastic sheeting as a rear windscreen is debatable. Probably the only time that any Tango Victor crew has ever had to saunter to the crime scene…
